Here, we develop a fast and simple MIcrobiome DAta Simulator (MIDASim) for generating realistic microbiome data that capture the correlation structure of taxa of a template microbiome dataset in both the presence-absence structure and the relative abundances. MIDASim can operate in two modes: ...
We develop MIDASim (MIcrobiome DAta Simulator), a fast and simple approach for simulating realistic microbiome data that reproduces the distributional and correlation structure of a template microbiome dataset. MIDASim is a two-step approach. The first step generates correlated binary indicators that r...